There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

Worldly things (laukik) are perceived through the senses (indriya-gamya). That, which is beyond the world (alaukik), is perceived [through the knowledge which is] beyond the senses (atindriya-gamya).

Dear Moon, Slowly enlighten my heart with your lovely, silvery, dancing, miraculous light.

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

The scrub sink...is the place where doctors wash their hands after they operate so that they won't get flecks of your vital organs on their Lexus upholstery.

It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

People with different personalities, different approaches, different values succeed not because one set of values or priorities is superior but because their values and practices are genuine.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.